By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – An American woman was shot and killed Friday during a protest against Israeli settlements in the Palestinian town of Beita in the occupied West Bank, also known as Judaea and Samaria, multiple sources confirm.
The U.S. State Department identified the woman as Aysenur Eygi.
Three activists who were at the protest on Friday said Israeli soldiers had shot the woman, but the Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
“We are aware of the tragic death of an American citizen, Aysenur Eygi, today in the West Bank,” the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, added in a statement. “We offer our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.”
The 26-year-old was born in Turkey and volunteered with the “anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement.”
She died in hospital on Friday after being shot in the head during a regular protest in Beita near Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The White House said in a statement it was “deeply disturbed” by the killing and seeking an Israeli investigation.
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A paramedic, Fayez Abdul Jabbar, told Al-Quds News Network: “We usually have weekly confrontations at Jabal Sabeeh. During these confrontations, the army fired two live bullets: one hit a foreigner, and the other hit another person, whose injury is less severe.”
He added that Eygi was treated in the car on the way to the hospital.
Fouad Nafaa, the head of the Rafidia hospital in Nablus, said doctors tried to resuscitate her, but the patient died on the operating table.
There have been growing tensions between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank.
Critics have blamed settlers who view the area as part of the Biblical Israel, and several Western allies, including the United States, imposed sanctions on several individuals.
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